Ubuntu 19.10 Doesn't Ship With AMD Navi / Radeon RX 5700 Support Working, But Easy To Enable

[tjaalton]

In all fairness, the new firmware was committed upstream (only) nine days before 19.10 was released. The vendors have ways to escalate things they think are important, and this could've been avoided had it been known in advance. It's being handled now https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...e/+bug/1848848

[tjaalton]

correction, rx5700 is navi10, and the firmware for that was added ~3 weeks before release

[Volta]

Ubuntu used to be more polished on Unity times. It's still sad they've dropped such great functionality and interface.

[jo-erlend]

There are some issues here.

1) Obviously, a user shouldn't be met with a black screen because of drivers.
2) If people who are aware of issues could just ask developers rather than waiting, things would improve.

[Venemo]

This isn't too surprising given Fedora stays much more closely upstream compared to Ubuntu.

Yes, that's my point exactly.

[MrCooper]

I have a different experience than what is stated in the article.

With a 5700 XT you can boot to desktop and basic 2D works, but no 3D accel, and when installing the correct firmware and rebooting it fails to reach the desktop - just a black blank screen.

At that point there was nothing I could do, because there were no errors in any logs or stdout.

Sounds like Mesa wasn’t compiled against LLVM 9. The blank screen is probably because radeonsi doesn’t fail cleanly in that case.

[tjaalton]

Sounds like Mesa wasn’t compiled against LLVM 9. The blank screen is probably because radeonsi doesn’t fail cleanly in that case.

The build with LLVM 9 is forced via build-depends, so that's not it.

[starshipeleven]

Gotta love the user experience of driver management on Ubuntu Linux in late 2019 – it's either part of the ISO or have fun with the terminal.

fixed

[starshipeleven]

Public Service Announcement. Why are you perverted?

There is nothing perverted in the biochemical marker of prostate cancer.
Unless you are japanese, that is. Then all bets are off.

[tildearrow]

Gotta love the user experience of driver management on non-Ubuntu Linux in late 2019 – it's either part of the ISO or have fun with the terminal.

fixed

double-fixed

At least Ubuntu has an "Additional Drivers" app to assist on that.